Institute for Medieval Studies

Session	1534
Title	Borders in Old Germanic Realities
Date/Time	Thursday 7 July 2022: 09.00-10.30
Organiser	Letizia Vezzosi, Dipartimento di Formazione, Lingue, Intercultura, Letterature e Psicologia, Università degli Studi di Firenze
Moderator/Chair	Letizia Vezzosi, Dipartimento di Formazione, Lingue, Intercultura, Letterature e Psicologia, Università degli Studi di Firenze
Paper 1534-a	Witchcraft Accusations in Early Medieval Decrees: The Reputation of a Woman between Religious Offence and Family Concern (Language: English) Daniela Fruscione, Institut für Rechtsgeschichte, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main Index Terms: Folk Studies; Language and Literature - Old English; Law
Paper 1534-b	Skaldic Poetry across Borders (Language: English) Maria Cristina Lombardi, Dipartimento di Studi Letterari, Linguistici e Comparati, Università degli Studi di Napoli L'Orientale Index Terms: Language and Literature - Scandinavian; Literacy and Orality
Paper 1534-c	Instances of Interactions and Conflicts in the North Sea Region in Medieval Times (Language: English) Concetta Giliberto, Dipartimento di Scienze Umanistiche, Università degli Studi di Palermo Index Terms: Historiography - Medieval; Language and Literature - Other; Language and Literature - Scandinavian
Abstract	The word of 'borders' will immediately recalls us the image of people moving across borders, which delimite and identify states and nationalities. In the Middle Ages, this was not the case: people moved between 'power-defined political areas', not across national borders, but, at most, across different geographical spaces into these realities, bringing with them their culture, their religion, their language, and sometimes their laws. Accordingly within those 'power-defined political areas' there were cultural, linguistic, legal borders to be crossed. In the present session, we would like to test such a claim within the Old Germanic world.